Welcome! My most recent book, Leavings, is just having its first birthday. It was published in August, 2024 and I think it looks great, thanks to its beautiful cover by David Lloyd Brown.
It’s about how we live our lives not only in this moment, but also in the context of public and private moments past and future–what is left to us and for us and by us. My Poem of the Moment is from the new collection.
I have a new “Quote of the Moment.” Although we are fortunate in 2024 to read its language as dated, its observation of our interconnectedness is not and is, in fact, what I think is at the heart of Leavings.
Readings and Writings
On November 12 I did a Zoom reading for the First and Last Word Poetry Series and read with Mary Bonina and Mark Pawlak. Here’s the recording.
On December 4 I had the pleasure of reading at the historic Grolier Poetry Bookshop with Mary Bonina, Charles Coe, and Helena Minton.
With thanks to Doug Holder, here is an email interview I did with him.
This is a link to a reading I did for the First and Last Word poetry series with Neil Silberblatt and Elizabeth S. Wolf.
Back when we weren’t going anywhere I did a reading for the Stockbridge (Massachusetts) Public Library . Here’s the link.
Poem of the moment
“The Intervening Day” we call it:
the day between his birthday and our
anniversary, between the beginning of
his days and the formal beginning of our
days together, between these two occasions
for cards and cakes, good wishes, celebrations,
this one day that has no ritual, just
an everyday day, a day we notice perhaps only
because it sits sandwiched between the two
momentous ones, a day when nothing further
is required than our simple gratitude for
one more ordinary day.
Books
Leavings
$18.00
Read more about Leavings here.
This Next Tenderness
$18.00
Read more about This Next Tenderness here.
Brightness Falls
$18.00
Read more about Brightness Falls here.
Container Gardening
$18.00
Read more about Container Gardening here.
Afterwords
$10.00
Read more about Afterwords here.
Quote of the moment
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein
My photo on the home page is by James Dalsimer. The book trailer video is by A. Dalsimer. The cover of Afterwords was designed by Kate Misail and the cover painting is by Eric Sealine. The cover art on the other books is by Faith Hochberg (Container Gardening), Lora Brody (Brightness Falls), Laura Fischman (This Next Tenderness), and David Lloyd Brown (Leavings).
anniversary, between the beginning of
his days and the formal beginning of our
days together, between these two occasions
for cards and cakes, good wishes, celebrations,
this one day that has no ritual, just
an everyday day, a day we notice perhaps only
because it sits sandwiched between the two
momentous ones, a day when nothing further
is required than our simple gratitude for
one more ordinary day.
$18.00
Read more about Leavings here.
$18.00
Read more about This Next Tenderness here.
$18.00
Read more about Brightness Falls here.
$18.00
Read more about Container Gardening here.
$10.00
Read more about Afterwords here.